I work at the intersection of technology, infrastructure, culture, and complex systems.



For over a decade I’ve worked with think tanks, startups and Fortune 100s alike, leading multidisciplinary teams and stewarding projects across aerospace, healthcare, infrastructure, blockchain, and the arts. I’ve operated at both tactical and strategic levels—overseeing $20M+ budgets, shaping organizational vision, and translating market ambiguity into actionable roadmaps. My background in media theory and design grounds a systems-oriented approach: one that’s as comfortable in a technical spec or governance doc as it is in a gallery or lecture hall. I’ve been a visiting scholar at NYU, a TEDx speaker, and part of a team awarded a Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian National Design Award. I care deeply about clarity, accountability, and building things— tools, structures, cultures— that help people navigate complexity with integrity and compassion.


Education

The New School, Rhode Island School of Design
Selected experience & projects

Art Blocks, Teladoc, GE Aerospace, CALTY Design Research, United Technologies, The Institute for the Future of the Book, Institute of Play


Selected writing

On a new aesthetics of seriality 
Digital objects, economies, and the challenge of meaning
In the forests of yūgen


I work at the intersection of technology, infrastructure, culture, and complex systems.



For over a decade I’ve worked with think tanks, startups and Fortune 100s alike, leading multidisciplinary teams and stewarding projects across aerospace, healthcare, infrastructure, blockchain, and the arts. I’ve operated at both tactical and strategic levels—managing $20M+ budgets, shaping organizational vision, and translating market ambiguity into actionable roadmaps. My background in media theory and design grounds a systems-oriented approach: one that’s as comfortable in a teachnical spec or governance doc as it is in a gallery or lecture hall. I’ve been a visiting scholar at NYU, a TEDx speaker, and part of a team awarded a Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian National Design Award. I care deeply about clarity, accountability, and building things— tools, structures, cultures— that help people navigate complexity with integrity and compassion.


Education


The New School, Rhode Island School of Design

Selected experience

Art Blocks, Teladoc, GE Aerospace, CALTY Design Research, United Technologies, The Institute for the Future of the Book, Institute of Play

Selected writing

On a new aesthetics of seriality
Digital objects, economies, and the challenge of meaning
In the forests of yūgen




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